The World Of Beachcomber
The World Of Beachcomber, 1968
The World Of Beachcomber was a surreal TV comedy sketch inspired by thew Beachcomber column in the Daily Express newspaper.Two series were broadcast in colour from 1968 (seri...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Life After Compo
Has It Really Been 20 Years?
It's now 2020 and twenty years have passed since the passing of one of comedy's great characters: Compo.This post deals with how the show moved on after the loss of it's centra...
Last Of The Summer Wine – There Goes The Groom
Last Of The Summer Wine – There Goes The Groom, 1997
A Christmas Feature Length Special
In 1997 Brian Wilde was struck down by shingles, meaning he was not available for the start of filming season 19 and the...
No Sex Please We’re British
No Sex Please We're British - 1973
An all star cast assembled for the 1973 film No Sex Please We're British adapted from the classic stage play of the same name that made it's debut in 1971.For the film ve...
Grace And Favour
Grace and Favour, 1992Retirement Grace Brothers’ style!Grace And Favour was the sequel off from the hugely successful Are You Being Served?The idea for at the show was suggested by the cast of the o...
Department Store Antics At Grace Brothers
Are You being Served? 1972
Are You Being Served, started life as an episode in the long running BBC Comedy Playhouse series.Set in the men's and women's departments of the fictional Grace Brothers Departm...
The Ultimate Compo Tribute?
Last Of The Summer Wine, It's Never Ten Years, 2008
It was during series 29 that the show chose to pay tribute to it's greatest character - Compo. Played by Bill Owen, Compo had been at the contrite of the s...
The Story of ‘Are You Being Served?’ 2010
With the new episode of the popular sitcom fresh in viewers' minds, it ssemed a good time to look back at the documentary that delved into the story of what became one Britain's best loved sitcoms.The docum...
Last Of The Summer Wine – The Next Generation
Last Of The Summer Wine – The Russ Abbott Years, 2008
At the end of 2008 certain cast members had got to an age where it was difficult to get insurance for them. It was decided to introduce a new character: H...
Hyacinth, A Best Seller?
It was reported by The Telegraph that BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, advises that Keeping Up Appearences is it's most successful export. Infact, the first series of the hit Nineties comedy has b...